European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024 – Candidates (26 films)

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  • 2720

    Portugal, Switzerland
    Documentary/fiction

    Nominated for European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024

    After a violent police raid in a poor clandestine neighbourhood in Lisbon, a 7-year-old girl seeks to find her missing older brother. At the same time, a young newly released ex-convict tries to start ...

  • 3350 KM

    ٣٣٥٠ كم

    France, Syria

    Documentary/experimental

    Father and daughter have been separated by 3,350 kilometres for seven years. He lives in Syria, she lives in exile. All they have left is to talk on the internet.

    Written & directed by: Sara Kontar
    Produced by: Sara Kontar
    Cinematography: Sara Ko...

  • AEROLIN

    ΑΕΡΟΛΙΝ

    Greece

    Fiction

    Sandy is a 30-year-old actress suffering from asthma. Tonight, she will be performing in a theatre. Before that though, she has to teach a yoga class to some old ladies in her neighbourhood, work as a clown at a children's party and audition for a commercial. In this equ...

  • AN ORANGE FROM JAFFA

    France, Poland, Palestine

    Fiction

    A few kilometres from Jerusalem, the Hizma checkpoint. There has been tension here for decades and the controls are extremely strict. A small mistake can cost a lot. Mohammed, a young Palestinian with a temporary Polish identity card, tries to get through the I...

  • ARDENT OTHER

    LE MAL DES ARDENTS

    France

    Documentary

    A stunned crowd faces a fire.
    The threat has no name, a diffuse anguish spreads.
    Fear needs to be conjured, fire must be turned into a sign.

    Directed by: Alice Brygo
    Written by: Alice Brygo, Paulo Gatabase
    Produced by: Luc-Jérôme Bailleul
    Cinematography: ...

  • AS IT WAS

    Poland, Ukraine

    Fiction

    Lera has been living in Berlin for almost a year since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. One day she decides to go back to Kyiv. On her way, she finds out that her family is not in Kyiv and will arrive only the next day. She meets her friend Kyrylo, with whom she spend...

  • A STUDY OF EMPATHY

    EN UNDERSØGELSE AF EMPATI

    Denmark, Germany

    Fiction

    Dana welcomes art student Penelope to her home to participate in her performance. The meeting between the two women takes an unexpected turn for Dana and leaves her disturbed. To find out what actually has happened between them, Dana musters u...

  • CLAMOR

    BOUCAN

    France

    Fiction

    Nominated for European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024

    Johannes and Gabin are young, cousins and in love with each other: their story takes place in Southern France.

    Directed by: Salomé Da Souza
    Written by: Salomé Da Souza, Romy Coccia du Ferro
    Produced by: Lou Chicoteau,...

  • DILDOTECTONICS

    DILDOTECTÓNICA

    Portugal

    Documentary/fiction

    In this day and age, Rebeca attempts to create a collection of non-phallic ceramic dildos. During the Inquisition, Josefa finds a dildo that is used in their forbidden love relationship with Maria. Although in different timelines, the paths of Rebeca...

  • IF THE SUN DROWNED INTO AN OCEAN OF CLOUDS

    ET SI LE SOLEIL PLONGEAIT DANS L'OCEAN DES NUES

    France, Lebanon

    Fiction

    Beirut, Lebanon. On the waterfront’s construction site, security agent Raed must prevent passing-by walkers from accessing the seaside. Yet as the horizon becomes each day more stifled by the construction, Raed makes pecul...

  • IN THE MIDST OF CHAOS THERE WAS SHAPE

    LEIKKEJÄ ELÄVILLE

    Finland

    Documentary

    In a forest, three elderly sisters are playing hide-and-seek. As the play goes on, time starts to lose its linearity, and past selves merge with present ones. What follows is an odyssey through dreams and memories. A hallucinatory exploration of time and c...

  • I WOULD RATHER BE A STONE

    RADIJE BIH BILA KAMEN

    Croatia

    Documentary/experimental

    Through the voice of Little Jela, the film tells the story of the events that marked a generation and shaped the future of the landscape of Lika, a neglected and sparsely populated region of Croatia. The living conditions impacted on the p...

  • ON THE WAY

    RRUGËS

    Kosovo

    Fiction

    Father and son are on their way to the airport to pick up a gift sent from abroad by the boy's godfather. Amid bureaucratic hurdles, with little or no hope for real political and social changes in the country, they find comfort and strength in their shared optimism for th...

  • PACIFIC VEIN

    Germany

    Animation/experimental

    PACIFIC VEIN takes us through a painterly panorama of the US West. Julian Assange stands between imperial, Roman fake buildings as a soda maker and ponders the digitisation of our world. Around him, hippies, artists and homeless people search for meaning while the...

  • RENÉ GOES TO WAR

    RENÉ VA ALLA GUERRA

    Italy

    Documentary/experimental

    Little René lives in a house in the woods of Slovenia. He spends his summer holidays playing alone, fantasising about defending the national borders from an enemy attack. The child designs and builds wooden toy weapons and then immerses himsel...

  • THAT'S ALL FROM ME

    Germany

    Experimental

    A fictitious video correspondence between two women of different generations. A director is planning a film about her struggles with being a mother and remaining a filmmaker. But she is failing to make any real progress with the project. She turns for help to a writer who h...

  • THAT'S HOW I LOVE YOU

    TAKO TE VOLIM

    Croatia, Portugal

    Fiction

    While spending holidays at his grandparents’ place in the countryside, a boy learns a cruel lesson of mercy.

    Directed by: Mário Macedo
    Written by: Ivor Radmilović Pavlek
    Produced by: Luís Costa, André Guiomar, Šimun Kuliš, Vanja Vascarac
    Cinematography:...

  • THE DEATH OF A HERO

    EN HJÄLTES DÖD

    Sweden

    Fiction

    In a small village where people don’t seem to get enough of entertainment, a young man is engaged to balance on his head at the top of the church tower and thereafter fall to the ground and dies. For doing this, he will receive a great deal of money. The people ga...

  • THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US

    QU'IMPORTE LA DISTANCE

    France

    Fiction

    At 5 in the morning, Yalla is in a hurry. Without her boss's permission, she leaves her night shift as a nursing assistant. She boards a bus, carrying only a heavy bag filled with clothes. The city is still asleep. Yalla sketches out on a piece of paper th...

  • THE EXPLODING GIRL

    LA FILLE QUI EXPLOSE

    France

    Animation

    Nominated for European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024

    For the past three months, Candice has been exploding every day. Sometimes even 2 or 3 times a day. Her record is seven times. She currently has had 192 explosions.

    Written & directed by: Caroline Poggi...

  • THE FILM MIGHT BE WHITE

    FILMEN KÄNNS FÖR VIT

    Sweden

    Fiction

    A final feedback meeting is being held before the release of an art school's new commercial. Everyone is pleased, but then a thought arises as to whether the commercial can be perceived as too white. This sparks a debate about how it happened, if it can be f...

  • THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT

    ČOVJEK KOJI NIJE MOGAO ŠUTJETI

    Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia

    Fiction

    Winner European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024
    Nominated for European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024

    February 27, 1993, Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary for...

  • THE VEILED CITY

    United Kingdom

    Documentary/experimental

    A speculative city symphony inspired by London’s Great Smog of 1952. Merging reality with fiction, THE VEILED CITY invites us to understand the smog in the context of the present-day climate crisis.

    Written & directed by: Natalie Cubides-Brady
    Produced b...

  • VALERIJA

    Croatia

    Documentary/experimental

    This hybrid film takes us on a journey into a world without men, where women choose the image that will represent them after they die. Through a participatory process, the author silently questions: How does it feel to have a family tree consisting only of women...